Saint-Domingue

Saint-Domingue (1659-1809) was a French colony that is located in present-day Haiti. From 1711 to 1770 its capital was Cap Francais and from 1770 to 1804 its capital was Port-au-Prince. Saint-Domingue was predominantly a cotton and sugar colony that was worked by African slaves, and in 1791-1804 it was the site of the Haitian Revolution, which emancipated the slaves as well as liberated the colony from the Kingdom of France.